SEO is important. There's no denying that. Search engine optimization tactics are what help to improve the search engine presence of a website and let's face it, the search engines are where people turn to when they are looking for the products or services that you are trying to sell. If you can't be found in the search engines, it diminishes your earning potential. Despite what naysayers want you to believe, SEO certainly isn't dead.  

In the last few years Brick Marketing has helped several websites diagnose and work through their manual or algorithmic penalties. If you have never had to deal with a Google penalty consider yourself lucky! It's an absolutely miserable experience even when you do know exactly what went wrong. It's twice as bad when you're not certain and taking wild shots in the dark in hopes of recovery. One client (before they worked with us) spent two years trying to get a Penguin penalty lifted and it cost them millions of dollars in revenue in the interim. And while they admit they did some less than perfectly white hat things, only 500 of their fifteen thousand links or so were questionable, so where they hit so hard?

We've all heard the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. She sneaks into the house of three bears and tries their porridge, chairs, and beds only finding one of the three in each instance to be "just right". The options that were "just wrong" were the extremes. The hot and cold porridge. The small and large chairs. The hard and soft beds. When it comes to content creation we recommend that website owners find the amount that's "just right".